
The Book of Chronicles is a Hebrew prose work constituting part of Jewish and Christian scripture. It contains a genealogy starting from Adam, and a narrative of the history of ancient Judah and Israel until the proclamation of King Cyrus the Great (c. 540 BC).
Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third section of Ketuvim, the last section of the Jewish Tanakh.
It was divided into two books in the Septuagint,
the Paralipoménōn (Greek: Παραλειπομένων, lit. "things left on one side").
In Christian contexts it is therefore known as the
Books of Chronicles,
after the Latin name chronicon given to the text by the scholar Jerome.
In the Christian Bible, the books (commonly referred to as
1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, or
First Chronicles and Second Chronicles)
generally follow the two Books of Kings, and precede Ezra–Nehemiah; thus they conclude the history-oriented books of the Old Testament.
1. Solomon's wisdom (1)
2. The building and inauguration of the temple (2-7)
3. Solomon's wealth, the Queen of Sheba(8-9)
4. The Kingdom Divided (10)
5. The Kingdom of Judah (11-36)
In the two final verses, identical to the opening verses of the Book of Ezra, the Persian king Cyrus the Great conquers the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and authorises the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem and the return of the exiles.
Refer to 1 Chronicles.
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